The biggest market for natural extracts—North American

The consumption of extract in America market is about $2.8 billion in 2005. The Canadian plant material market is constantly expanding. American is the world's last plant medicine national identity.

  American formulated the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act in 1994, the definition of Dietary Supplements include Herbs and Other Plants and its Any Concentrate, there is no doubt that this was determined by plant extracts as the legal status of dietary supplements.

  The 2000 edition of Pharmac Opoeia American collected plant drugs including 20 extracts (containing vegetable oil, aromatic oil) . America is one of the countries consume most of the world's plant extract.

  At present, American of standard extract does not formulate specific regulations, but many USA large pharmaceutical factory has its own strict quality requirements of standard extract, and they are also more sensitive to the price.

  USA ingredients 70% rely on imports from abroad, the product is the raw herbs or extracts, the extract with single medicine based, for example made of Ginkgo biloba, Green Tea, soybean isoflavone, angelica, Siberian Ginseng Extract and other herbal extracts.

  American Food Encyclopedia carrieson the investigationto the 2000 health food store, the results show that in order to extract usedas type accounted for 7.4%. In 1992, American plant drug sales were $1.2 billion, to $7 billion in 2005,the average annual growth rate of more than 10%.

Sell capacity of Herb and Herb products from 1997~2003:

(Unit:100 Million dollar)